A few months have passed since the initial flurry of rave reviews that greeted the publication of Gary Spencer Millidge’s Alan Moore: Storyteller. And in that time there have been a few more: time to share… Glass Magazine (if you’re not familiar with it [...]
Over at dpreview.com Adam Kaplan has reviewed the Photographer’s Mind in some depth. It’s taken him a while – it was released over a year ago – but he has some good things to say about Michael Freeman’s most-recent-book-but-one, so we’ll forgive him: His [...]
Want to design books for an award-winning publisher? Ilex is looking for designers to work on covers and interiors. We are looking for designers with strong type and layout skills, creative flair and the ability to turn an authors words and pictures into a beautifully [...]
As you might have noticed from the odd hints in our twitter feed, or if you read our last newsletter right to the very bottom, we in the Ilex Photo team have been working on something pretty special over the last few months. Now [...]
If you’re heading to Thought Bubble‘s Comic Con – fast becoming one of the UK’s best-loved comics events – this weekend, be sure to stop by Gary’s table in Saviles Hall and pick up a signed copy of one of his wonderful Ilex books [...]
From the maker of Microbot, 2008, comes Microbot’s new arm, 2011. Josh Buczynski, co-author of Build Your Own Paper Robots, has been busy developing new paper technology which he’s used to give Microbot an upgrade in the form of new, improved arm joints. You [...]
Ahhh, the glamour of the silver screen… irresistible. Which is why these oversize mood boards have been creating quite a stir in the office. Rough and ready they may be, but they are a little bit of Hollywood magic – for they are where [...]
If you’re interested in knowing a bit more about what makes prolific photographer Michael Freeman tick, then a few interviews have emerged from his recent tour of the Unites States. Perhaps one of the most interesting is this, by Anthony Dean of the Philadelphia [...]
Everyone, in every publisher, all over the world, knows that the cover design question is the knottiest in the business. Should you go typographic? Literal? Photographic? Graphic? Lots of words? Few words? Author name in 176pt gold embossed type? Matt finish or gloss? These [...]
One of the great things about publishing such a broad range of photography titles as we Ilex Photo bods do is that you meet your photographers in the strangest of places, whether physical or virtual. While browsing the web for the next big thing, [...]
Bye, bye Indian summer; hello flu-season. My, don’t you look nice! New hair? Looking at Luke Jerram’s stunning glass sculpture of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus, you might be forgiven by colleagues this season for passing on a common cold. Jerram’s sculpture is an [...]
I was on a New Year sales trip to the US when one of our regular partners (a really canny publisher) remarked to me that on vacation she had been buttonholed by no fewer than three people who had ‘an idea for a book’. [...]
